§ 10-61. New drainage facilities.

All new drainage facilities constructed in connection with a limerock mining operation shall release water in a manner approximating the natural local surface flow regime, through a spreader pond or performance equivalent structure or system, either on site or to a natural retention or natural filtration and flow area. New drainage facilities shall also maintain a groundwater level sufficient to protect wetland vegetation through the use of weirs or performance equivalent structures or systems. Said facilities shall not retain, divert, or otherwise block or channel the naturally occurring flows in a strand or a slough.

(Ord. No. 75-2, § V)

State law reference

Escape of debris from mining operations, F.S. § 533.02.